By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Long before Nelson Mandela won his freedom from 27 years of imprisonment fighting apartheid in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu earned the moniker “the nation’s conscience.” White and Black residents of the popular African nation lauded the bishop for his relentless fight to unite races and ...

A visit to an orphanage in Soweto became the emotional highlight of a study abroad trip to South Africa this summer by a group of Cal State San Bernardino students and their faculty adviser. With funds donated by CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales and faculty and staff of the university’s Department of Psychology, students and ...

By Chiagoziem “Sylvester” Agu Albany State University  Of the more than 330,000 U.S. students studying abroad, only 6.1 percent are African American and 10 percent are Latino. This is one in a series of articles by students of color who are breaking down barriers by studying abroad thanks to the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, which ...

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. There are certain things about the Trump administration that never cease to amaze me. It is not just that they get their facts wrong. It is not just that they lie. What is striking is that when they get caught in a lie they either ignore the facts or they simply ...

Nine undergraduate students from Cal State San Bernardino were in South Africa on July 18, which marked the 100th anniversary of the late Nelson Mandela’s birth. While there, the students participated in the Mandela Day global call to action by not only seeking to understand his life and legacy, but also taking action in his ...

July 17, 2018 Johannesburg, South Africa PRESIDENT OBAMA: (Cheers and applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. (Laughter.) AUDIENCE: Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can! PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. To Mama Graça Machel, members of the Mandela family, the Machel family, to ...